Yesterday we found the black-crowned night-heron roost on the Olentangy
River across from OSU's Drake Union has reassembled. Counted three
immature birds plus thirteen adults, one looking like a subadult
actually. It would be interesting to know where they spend the breeding
season.  The OSU campus was spookily deserted. Before long everything
except the sacred tracts of athletic fields will be paved or built up.
        Alum Ck SP was closed, but a scan across from the beach found a common
loon, hooded merganser, ruddy ducks, horned grebes, and some Bonaparte's
gulls.
        Upper Hoover Res had a changing review of waterfowl, with mallards,
pintails, gadwalls, scaup sp up by the boardwalk. Some of the Canadas
were wild ones, as evidenced by their behavior and the occasional orange
neck-collar from the James Bay population.
Cheers to all,
Bill Whan
Columbus

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